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καταιν-έω , poet. aor.1
A.“-ησα” Pi. (v. infr.):—agree to a thing, approve of it, opp. ἀναίνομαι, c. acc. rei, Hdt.4.80, 6.62; κ. [τι ] ἐπί τινι to agree to it on conditions, Id.3.53: c. dat. rei, Th.4.122: abs., “οὐ καταινέσαμεν ἀλλὰ ἀπειπάμεθα” Hdt.9.7.ά.
2. agree, promise to do, c. aor. inf., “γάμον μεῖξαι” Pi.P.4.222: c. fut. inf., “καταίνεσον μή ποτε προδώσειν” S.OC 1633, cf. 1637; also τοῦτον κ. βασιλέα σφίσι εἶναι agree that he should be king, Hdt.1.98; κ. τινὰ ταγόν (sc. εἶναι) AP9.98 (Stat. Flacc.).
3. grant, promise, “τοῦτ᾽ ἐμοὶ πόλις τὸ δῶρον . . κατῄνεσεν” S.OC432, cf. Ichn.158; esp. promise in marriage, betroth, “παῖδά τινι” E.IA695, cf. Plu.Pomp.47; “κ. πρὸς γάμον” Nic.Dam.10 J.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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